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From:   Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Date:   Fri, 10 Feb 2023 16:13:21 +0100
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: Fix unwanted sign extension in netdev_stats_to_stats64()
To:     Felix Riemann <felix.riemann@sma.de>
Cc:     netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
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On Fri, Feb 10, 2023 at 1:37 PM Felix Riemann <svc.sw.rte.linux@sma.de> wrote:
>
> From: Felix Riemann <felix.riemann@sma.de>
>
> When converting net_device_stats to rtnl_link_stats64 sign extension
> is triggered on ILP32 machines as 6c1c509778 changed the previous
> "ulong -> u64" conversion to "long -> u64" by accessing the
> net_device_stats fields through a (signed) atomic_long_t.
>
> This causes for example the received bytes counter to jump to 16EiB after
> having received 2^31 bytes. Casting the atomic value to "unsigned long"
> beforehand converting it into u64 avoids this.
>
> Fixes: 6c1c5097781f ("net: add atomic_long_t to net_device_stats fields")
> Signed-off-by: Felix Riemann <felix.riemann@sma.de>
> ---

Thanks for the fix.

Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>